Process of welding bessemer steel



. I PROCESS OF WEL EEEEEEEEE ME B, sTEEL. No. 258,358. Patented May 23,1882.

1 patented by T. A. Edison, June 1, 1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIARD '1. BLOCK, OF HAN NIBAL, MISSOURI.

PROCESS OF WELDING BESSEMER STEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent vNo. 258,358, dated May 23,1882.

Application filed September 13, 1881. (No model.) i I To allwhom it mayconcern Be it known that I, WILLIARD T. BLooK, of Hannibal, in thecounty of St. Joseph and State of Missouri, baveinvented acertain newand useful Improvement in the Art of Welding together Bars of BessemerSteel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to an improvemen t on the invention described inLetters Patent No. 221,038, granted October 28, 1879, to lhos. J.Deakin, the inventor, and myself, Williard T. Block 5 and it consists insubstituting for the iron turnings in that patent described the use of acertain magnetic iron ore, which is separated from the sandof the oceanby a process The cost, of iron turnings is considerable, and muchdifficulty has been experienced in getting sufticient quantity of it.Now, 1 have discovered that this magnetic ore answers every purpose ofthe iron turnings, and as itis cheap and can be had in any quantity itadds greatly to the value of the invention of T. J. Deakin, aforesaid. s

Referring to the accompanying drawing,

which is a cross-section through a furnace, A is a pile ofBessemer-steel bars, pieces of railroad-rails being shown surrounded bya coating of the magnetic ore B and resting 011 the bottom of thefurnace D.

As the art of welding together bars of Bes-i the door thereto.

I claim as my invention- The described process of welding together barsof Bessemer steel, wherein the said magnetic iron ore is used as acoating in place of the iron turnings heretofore used.

WILLIARD T. BLOCK.

Witnesses:

A. H. MACKINTOS'H, A. E. WAGNER.

